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161. Peterson, Combined Action Platoons, 48; Klyman, “Combined Action Program”;
Brown, oral history, in Hemingway, Our War Was Different, 23; oral
history files 2202- 2341 and 2202- 2599, USMC Vietnam War Oral History
Collection.
162. For enthusiastic admonishments to know the culture and speak the language in
the Small Wars Manual, see ch. 1, “Introduction,” 13, 18, 19, 22, 26, 28, 41; ch.
2, “Organization,” 1, 17, 18, 28; ch. 6, “Infantry Patrols,” 12; ch. 13, “Military
Government,” 10–13; and ch. 14, “Supervision of Elections,” 12.
163. McNamara, letter to Zais. See also Allnutt, Marine Combined Action Capabilities,
26.
164. Rocky Jay, oral history in Hemingway, Our War Was Different, 115.
165. Klyman, “Combined Action Program.”
166. Oral history file 2202- 2341, USMC Vietnam War Oral History Collection.
167. Goodson, CAP Mot, viii–ix. Not all agreed that the priorities be laid out
in this order; see Chuck Ratliff, oral history in Hemingway, Our War Was
Different, 28.
168. Allnutt, Marine Combined Action Capabilities, 29. For a specific discussion of
a Marine who had to be removed, see oral history file 753, USMC Vietnam War
Oral History Collection, transcription by Noah Johnson, February 23, 2012.
For a discussion of one who was not removed soon enough, see Dr. Wayne
Christiansen, oral history in Hemingway, Our War Was Different, 133–34.
Even the corpsman, valuable as he was, was not immune: CAP 1- 3- 9 shipped
one back for poor conduct. Philip Leiker, lecture at Utah State University, April
5, 2013.
169. Brown, oral history in Hemingway, Our War Was Different, 27. Another
Marine details the lengths his squad went to in order to protect the reputations
of Vietnamese women in his ville: oral history file 2724, USMC Vietnam War
Oral History Collection.
170. Tom Krusewski, oral history in Hemingway, Our War Was Different, 90.
171. Jay, oral history, ibid., 117.
172. Krulak, First to Fight, 190. See also Peterson, Combined Action Platoons, 26.
173. R. E. Williamson, “A Briefing for Combined Action,” Marine Corps Gazette
(March 1968): 42.
174. For instance, see Harvey, oral history in Hemingway, Our War Was Different,
82; Jay, oral history, ibid., 118; and oral history file 2599, USMC Vietnam War
Oral History Collection.
175. Oral history file 2202- 2341, USMC Vietnam War Oral History Collection.
176. Interview with CAP Marine Trust Israel, November 9, 2013, transcription in
possession of the author.
177. Warren Carmon, oral history in Hemingway, Our War Was Different, 168–69.
178. Smith, oral history, ibid., 140–41.
179. Oral history file 2202- 2341, USMC Vietnam War Oral History Collection.
180. Allnutt, Marine Combined Action Capabilities, 27.